The Jambos full-back admits there is still no love lost with Tottenham from his time in the Gunners academy
Daniel Oyegoke got a crash course in the bitter North London derby rivalry when he was a kid at Arsenal and he’d love the chance to smash Spurs again with the Jambos.
“I wouldn’t say I was an Arsenal fan. I wasn’t really a fan of any team, I just loved my football. Oliver Skipp is a good few years older than me but I caught him when I was playing for the 21s. They have a good team. So do we though. It’s a game we’ll use to build our fitness and, yeah, hopefully beat them up!”
He’ll always be grateful to the Emirates side though and he said: “Football was always my sport. I played lots of sports when I was younger, but that’s just what you do when you are young and have lots of energy. It was always football for me. I went to Arsenal from Barnet when I was about 14. It was good for me and my development as a footballer. I joined as a striker or a winger, but quickly became a right-back or centre-half in my first year.
Oyegoke learned about sticking it to Spurs but he also came on leaps and bounds under Mikel Arteta. And’s he’s convinced the lessons learned under the Arsenal boss will pay off at Tynecastle. He said: “I joined at the end of Wenger and then it was Unai Emery. It went on to Arteta. Obviously I was quite young but I spoke a lot with Arteta.
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